Showing an image from console in Python

Question

What is the easiest way to show a .jpg or .gif image from Python console?

I\'ve got a Python console program that is checking a data set wh

Answer 1

Since you are probably running Windows (from looking at your tags), this would be the easiest way to open and show an image file from the console without installing extra stuff like PIL.

import os
os.system('start pic.png')